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ORSON BYRON LOWELL. "And none of your scorching, now, Mr. Beebe . . ." Illustration for an unidentified magazine story from 1903. Charcoal, ink, and graphite on paper. 463x330 mm; 18 1/4x13 inches. Signed in lower left and captioned in pencil, lower margin. Accompanied by another illustration from the same story, uncaptioned. 463x367 mm; 18 1/4x14 1/2 inches. Signed in lower center image.
Two charming illustrations featuring a brash young Mr. Beebe and his love of motoring wherein he joyrides his girlfriend Mabel around the country in his new model cars. The full caption reads "And none of your scorching, now, Mr. Beebe, or I cannot permit my Mabel to go . . . You do SO. I've seen you whizzing by here at fifteen miles an hour." Lowell's keen visual social commentary was recently featured in the exhibition "Fashion and Satire, the Drawings of Orson Byron Lowell and Charles Dana Gibson," at the Society of Illustrators, September 5, 2017 to October 28, 2017.
